Head of Design

Alef Education
Abu Dhabi
Full timeFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Experience: 6+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Cross-functional collaboration","Strategic thinking","Presentation","Cultural sensitivity"]

Lead the overall design direction to shape the end-to-end product and brand experience for a digital learning platform. You’ll align Product, Engineering, Content, and others on priorities, own key learning journeys, and drive design system development. Combine user research, qualitative insights, and product data to improve experiences using meaningful metrics. Build and evolve the design team’s quality bar and ways of working across discovery to launch.

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Head of Design

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Job Summary

Lead the overall design direction to shape the end-to-end product and brand experience for a digital learning platform. You’ll align Product, Engineering, Content, and others on priorities, own key learning journeys, and drive design system development. Combine user research, qualitative insights, and product data to improve experiences using meaningful metrics. Build and evolve the design team’s quality bar and ways of working across discovery to launch.
Location: Abu Dhabi
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set the design strategy and align cross-functional leaders on priorities and trade-offs.
  • •Own the end-to-end product and brand experience, ensuring consistency across product, marketing, and content.
  • •Build and maintain a reliable design system and evolve team ways of working.
  • •Lead and develop design teams, define quality standards, ownership models, and sign-off processes.
  • •Use user research and product data to guide decisions, define success metrics, and improve key journeys and workflow bottlenecks.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Travel AllowanceAnnual BonusEducation AllowanceHealth InsurancePaid LeaveRemote Work

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, or a related field; Master’s degree is a plus.
  • •Minimum of 6 years in branding or visual design, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
  • •Experience with product design, visual identity, and brand design, with an affinity for designing for learning.
  • •Strong understanding of UI/UX principles, typography, color theory, and layout design.
  • •Fluency in English; Arabic is preferred.
Experience:6+ years
Education:Bachelor's in Graphic Design, Visual Arts
Skills:LeadershipCross-functional collaborationStrategic thinkingPresentationCultural sensitivity
Languages:EnglishArabic
Tech Stack:FigmaAdobe Creative SuiteIllustratorPhotoshopInDesignAI prototyping

Company Brief

Alef Education
Provides digital learning solutions and curriculum platforms for K-12 education, helping schools and ministries deliver personalized instruction, assessments, and analytics. The company focuses on improving learning outcomes through technology-enabled classroom and home learning tools.
Industry: EdTech
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Founded: 2016
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